Episode 78 - Matt vs Revel, the Last Stand!
It is time for the final judgment. All the students and the remaining Halflings had arrived at the balcony of where the hidden village rests. Jen is about to give her final decision…
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“I… have decided that…” Everyone waited eagerly for her answer. The group from below all rushed out of the balcony, causing Vialaro to move aside. “I choose… To help save Echoville! I can come back anytime I want once everything is done!! Stop interrupting me, Matt!!”
Matt was shaking in fear. “Jen… what happened to you?”
“She’s already given a close bond with us in Echoville. I am sad to say that it is too late for you to talk her out of it. She is only being kind.”
Mariel stomped on the ground, “What are you saying, damn girl!”
“Jen, you’re too nice. Don’t let that woman take advantage of you!” Danny said in sadness. He was worried about Jen.
Miss Siren pointed a finger at the whole group, “Get down.” Her finger was shining against the group and a screeching noise grew louder only to those that Miss Siren directed it to. Jen was confused about why they were all suddenly kneeling down in pain. Even Levi and Vialaro were in pain. Miss Siren stood right in front of Revel, “Awaken!!”
The ground began shaking and Revel opened his eyes. His height was over ten feet! The force of reincarnation was pulling around him and everyone could barely move. Jen took a step back, “Wait… Miss Siren, please don’t hurt them.”
Miss Siren pushed Jen down, “Out of my way. Revel is about to speak!”
Revel growled loudly. All the humans were trying to use their powers but they were too weak from the screeching. Jen ran towards Matt and she held onto him, “Matt, what is it? Tell me, Matt!!” Matt covered his eyes and he closed his eyes while clenching his teeth. He was shaking in pain and so was everybody else. She dragged him down to the room below.
Revel said in a demonic tone, “Miss Siren, you have awaken me from the other world. I thank you for that.” Each step he took was as if a giant was walking.
“Welcome, new leader of all Halflings, I present to you Echoville, the world in which you rule!”
Down below, Jen shook Matt’s shoulders, “Hang in there, Matt! Please, tell me what is hurting you!”
The screeching had gone away for Matt now that he was in the room below. He explained to her, “She set us up in pain from some damn screeching noise… Now that it’s gone… It might not come back once I go back up there. I must stop Siren and that Revel guy that she keeps mentioning. I have to stop them!”
“But it’s too dangerous!”
“WHAT OTHER CHOICE DO WE HAVE?!”
Jen was surprised to see that Matt yelled at her. “M-Matt…” She began to cry, “You’re right… you’re absolutely right…! I was stupid. I was an idiot, thinking that this fantasy could be real and that I can become important to a whole nation. But… what surprises me most is… how you’re all here with me.”
Matt was stuck in a dilemma now. Should he fight Miss Siren and Revel with his fire powers, revealing this to Jen? This might cause a disturbance in himself just like what happened with Sammy. The only way to fix it then would be to have Jen leave high school. Matt shook his head, “(I must stop them first, or else our world would not be the same anymore. I’ll worry about Jen finding out later!)” Matt stood up and he headed back up to the balcony.
“M-Matt, wait!” Matt turned around and Jen said with hope, “Good luck…!” Matt gave her a thumbs up.
“Of course!”
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Matt made flames appear on his hands. Jen shrieked and Matt headed back onto the balcony rooftop. He yelled, “I’M NOT DONE YET!”
Revel asked Miss Siren, “Who is this young boy?”
“He is trying to stop us from ruling Echoville. He is an enemy!”
Revel made his own hands move like prototypes. They were similar to machines in the same of metal fists, “Then this boy shall be eliminated from this world.” Jen arrived back on the rooftop as well. She watched carefully since she was not able to do anything. She decided to drag everyone one by one below the balcony but Miss Siren pointed a finger at her. Jen began to hear the annoying screeches as well.
Matt threw a few fireballs at Revel but it was ineffective. It only shattered once it touched Revel’s body. “What?!” Matt said in anger. Miss Siren pointed a finger at Matt but Matt moved away, trying to throw a fireball at her as well.
“Give it up already, little boy. It’s two against one. When you are focusing on one of us, you aren’t focusing on the other.” Matt turned around and Revel strongly punched Matt in the face. Matt fell to the ground with his head smacking against the floor. He coughed for air. Miss Siren giggled and she pointed a finger at Matt again. “This time, there is no running away. This is it, fire kid.”
Matt became frustrated with Miss Siren’s words. “You… don’t know how much I’ve been through!” Matt bursted into flames because of his anger. His eyes turned into flames and his fists were spilling of explosive flames. “You’re starting to piss me off!”
Matt ran towards Miss Siren, trying to punch her a few times but he constantly missed. Revel tried to punch Matt in the process but Matt used his fire shield. Revel’s fist was so strong that the shield did not burn him at all. The punch went right through Matt and he clashed onto the ground again. “Miss Siren, we shall annihilate him this instant.”
Miss Siren nodded, “Of course.” She pointed a finger at Matt, “Come, screeches. We shall weaken him first.” She walked towards Matt and she made her finger point much closer to Matt’s ear, “This will burst your eardrums and you will become deaf for the rest of your life. Are you ready?”
Matt closed his eyes, “This is the end… it’s all over…!”
“Geh- gergh, egh!” yelled Revel.
Miss Siren turned around, “What?!”
“Don’t say it’s all over just yet, Matt!” Jaime appeared and he made ninjas slash Revel on the legs. This was Revel’s weak spot. Blades especially cut through his legs would cause him to become weaker. “Just a little more!” Jaime continued to summon more ninjas and then he quickly said, “Moonlight Blind!” Miss Siren and Revel became blind. Miss Siren’s weakness caused the group’s screeches to disperse slowly.
“My powers are becoming uncontrollable!” Siren said in anger.
Yessenia ran towards Siren with her blunt sword. She stabbed through Siren on the chest and said with a smile, “This is what you get for trying to possess me after so long, you bastard!”
Miss Siren fell to the ground, coughing. Levi cried, “Miss Siren!”
“It can’t be helped anymore.” Mariel said. “That woman is no longer your mother. She was a demon ever since she had been reincarnated. She said so herself…”
Levi held onto Mariel, crying, “But… but!” She ran over to Miss Siren. “M-M-Mother!”
Miss Siren held Levi’s face with her hands, “My dear… daughter, Levi…” A dark aura was exerting out of Miss Siren’s body. “Please, thank this woman… properly for finally being able to free me from such demonic actions.” Levi watched Yessenia. Miss Siren was vanishing, “I am only a reincarnate, a prototyped digicell… I will miss you, Levi, my dearest daughter. Say goodbye to Marri for me…” She completely shattered away and Levi cried out loud.
Matt slowly got up, “I can still keep up.”
Jaime summoned more ninjas, “Alright, that’s good. Are you ready?”
Revel turned to his left to take sight of Matt and then right, to focus on Jaime, “What the hell do you guys think you’re doing?!”
Matt was readying his fireballs and Jaime was about to close in on Revel with his ninjas, “Let’s take him down at once!”
“Alright!” Matt agreed. Both of them sent their attacks towards Revel and this caused Revel to fall in pain. Santi used his time powers to slow him down. Shirley threw a bunch of ice blocks at him while Danny rose the ground level below Revel. Mariel splashed water under Revel so that he would slip and fall. Winny only stood there, watching them use teamwork.
Yessenia picked up her blunt sword, “Now, for the finishing move.” Everyone moved away and Yessenia charged for Revel’s chest. She jumped up and flew back down with a forceful stab in Revel’s chest. This caused him to yell out with his loudest until he shattered. This caused a massive wind to pass through the whole group of eight along with Jen, Levi, and Vialaro.
After a few seconds, the whole area became silent. Jen ran towards Matt with an embracing hug, “Matt! You’re okay!!”
Matt remembered that Jen watched everything of how Matt was using his fire powers to fight Revel along with everybody else’s powers. “You saw… didn’t you?”
“Yeah… I did.” Jen wiped her tears away.
Mariel walked over to Levi and she patted Levi on the back, “Well now that our business is done, we got all of our answers cleared. Fate told us to defeat Miss Siren and Revel without having to kill the Halflings. The betrayal of Shirley in the context was just unclear and unfinished. The ending of the Echoville novel was to test our ability to keep moving forward.”
Shirley giggled, “Yep! Thank goodness.”
Mariel gave Levi a handshake, “And as promised, we will all leave you Halflings alone.”
Levi began crying in happiness, “Promised? Y-You kept it… You kept a promise. A human kept a promise! Vialaro, can you believe it? This is a dream come true!”
“Hmph.” Vialaro turned away.
All the sudden, a portal appeared behind everybody where Revel was standing. Jaime turned around and he gasped, “What the hell?!”
Sirius appeared from the portal and he yelled, “GAHAHAH! I finally found my way back into Echoville! It took me awhile from being in limbo, thanks to you, damn shadow user. Now, I can fulfill to fight for Miss Siren!”
Jaime said bluntly, “We already beat Miss Siren and Revel.”
Sirius screamed, “WAHHHH?! B-B-B-But…!”
Matt added, “And we’re going to leave you Halflings alone. We are already done with everything.” Sirius watched Levi and Vialaro just standing there.
Levi smiled, “Sirius, let’s go find all the other Halflings later. Miss Siren was the real villain, not any of us here. We’re going to live on our journey for Echoville and hope that things turn out the best it can. You don’t have to fight for Miss Siren anymore.”
“Now I have no purpose to fight?!” Sirius frowned. “Awr…” He suddenly moped towards Levi and Vialaro.
Mariel hugged Levi, “Well, Levi, I guess this is goodbye. Once we leave, we might not be able to come back anymore. When we complete a world, the option for us to return becomes locked.”
Shirley bowed to them, “And I thank you for trusting us. Everything worked out so well… Our long adventure in Echoville is finally over.”
Winny said, “I guess this will all somehow lead to El Monte existing. After all, we have been in the ancient times of El Monte this whole time.” The group became silent.
“EH?!!” they all said, except Mariel. Winny covered her ears.
“Oh goodness. You all get easily surprised.” She became giddy and then she giggled.
Danny took sight of the whole village, “You mean this whole time we were fighting for El Monte?”
Mariel punched him on the head, “Yeah, no duh. I don’t think any of you guys took me seriously when we were caged down below. How ignorant can you guys be?”
Matt began laughing, “Oh well. As long as everything is fixed. We’ve gained a lot of power ever since we stepped foot in this place and we’re all leaving for the better.”
Shirley opened the Echoville book and everything was filling up, “And this indicates that we are completely done. I think now is the perfect time to leave.”
Santi reached into his pocket, “Well then, that only means one thing.”
Matt, Santi, Shirley, Danny, Yessenia, Mariel, Jaime, and Winny all took out their cellphones. Jen held onto Matt’s arm.
Levi waved to them, “I guess this is goodbye… I thank you all so entirely much for your help! The nightmare is finally over between us Halflings and humans. Although it may be difficult to trust the humans ahead of us, you all will stay in our hearts, right Sirius?” She kicked Sirius to have him wave as well. Sirius looked away, waving at the same time. Vialaro ignored them, walking down to the room below.
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Echoville… the world gained its name from Miss Siren. Now that she is gone, the Halflings can rename it to anything they want it to be. With this, they decided that the area should be named ‘El Monte’ in celebration for all nine of the students who stepped foot in this world. Now, all the students are finally able to peacefully return to their homeland and school, El Monte…
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---- Next chapter preview:Matt: Next time on the next volume, we're finally back at El Monte! We'll continue the cliffhanging story about Jen's knowledge of Echoville and all of the characters' powers. Now that Jen knows, what will happen to everybody else? Will the situation between the power users change just like what happened when Sammy was around?
Mariel: What do you want this time? I'm trying to finish a lab here!
Santi: Please stay calm. This is where I will change but will it be for the better? I will do something devastating that may change our situation forever.
Stan: You are all in my way. Prepare for an attack.
Matt: We need to look for Jen. But why is Stan suddenly attacking back? We have an important business to take care of! Next time on episode 79, The Memory is Important, Finding Jen and Santi!
Mariel: And where is Jen, you suppose?
1 comments:
That was a really good volume :D
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